Panel and wood trimming



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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,070, dated December 9, 1884.

Application filed August 19, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Beit known that I, FREDERICK MANKEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Panels and Wood-Trimmings, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Figure l is a perspective view of a piece of surface-crosscut wood with one strip fully cut off and one partially cut oft'. Fig. 2 is a face view of sections oi the wood sawed and fastened together, producing a panel. Fig. 3 shows the pieces mitered together, producing diagonal figures.

This invention relates to means for producing ornamental woodwork for modern architectural work, for carpentering, furniture, and decorating work, and for various other purposes; and it consists in utilizing crosscut surface work ouwood for the above-named purposes, aswill be fully understood from the following description, when taken in connection with the annexed drawings.

In carrying ont my invention I may use any of the hard or soft woods. I may also employ in the manufacture a well-known machine called W'ardwells Patent Saw-Bench, or'I may use any other wood-working ma chines to which a rotary cutter is or can be conveniently applied. The pieces of wood are properly gaged on such machines and4 moved beneath or over the cutter, or the cutter moved over the wood in a direction at an angle with respect to the length of its grain, so that the surface of the wood will be out crosswise or at an angle ofthe grain in elevations and depressions, thus bringing out in bold relief the different forms, shapes, configuration or colors of the grain or fiber of the wood, and producing a beautiful appearance, which cannot be produced by cutting in a direction with the grain. This wood, when surface-crosscut, is sawed up into pieces of any desired size or shape. I may saw from the planks so cut thin strips, all of which will, on onel or both edges, be uniform in contour, and which could not be practically produced by the well-known jig or muley saw or other cutter.

It is obvious that any one pattern of the stuff can be sawed diagonally into pieces, and that the pieces so produced can all be accurately matched,`and then can be fastened together to form an almost indefinite variety of wood-trimmings, one of which is illustrated in the annexed drawings.

In connection with my improved work as above described, I may produce another variety of designs by cutting across the crosscut surface work, or, in other words, cuttingdn a direction with respect to the length of the grain. Thus I may make a given surface ligure crosscut, and then cut at right angles, or obliquely at any angle across the iirst figure; or I may take a surface-crosscut board and saw it into pieces of even or uneven widths and fasten the same together, so as to produce a piece of trimming representing staggering or tortuous work, wherein the elerations and depressions of one strip will alternate with the corresponding elevations and depressions of the adjacent strips.

A very beautiful effect may be produced by using wood of different colors, and paneling thus made may be surrounded by a border of straight or crosscut beading.

It' desired, the strips into which the wood is cut maybe of suitable size to be run through a molding-machine, in which case molding will be produced with figures on one or both edges ofthe strip.

I do not, under this application, claim surfacccutting across the grain of the wood, as this forms the subject of my application for Letters Patent marked Case B, Serial No.

140,956, and bearing even date with the filing of this.

Having described my invention, I claimn l. A panel or molding formed of wood pieces surface-crosscut in elevations and depressions, matched and secured together, substantially as described.

2. Anbmamental strip of wood produced by first surface-crosscutting and then sawing" the stuff, substantially as described.

3. The new and improved article of manul facture, consisting of surface-crosscut wood sawed into strips and fastened together, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK MANKEY.

Witnesses:

H. B. ZnvELY, A. N. ZEVELY. 

